Since then, he has tried nearly every drug imaginable and has unsuccessfully used suboxone and methadone to detox. I decided to take another piece and then I nodded off.”īy the time he was 20, Aaron was snorting five to eight 30mg oxycontins per day. “About five minutes later, I was in pure bliss. “I snuck to his room, broke one up into four pieces and ate one,” Aaron said. A few years later, his father was prescribed oxycontin after crushing his back in an accident. Aaron, who faces legal issues related to drug dealing and abuse, withheld his real name out of fear of arrest.Īaron’s descent into addiction began at 13 when he abused the pain medication hydrocodone. One person directly affected by r/opiates was Aaron, 27, of McDowell County, West Virginia.
This past month alone featured a post from one user experimenting with old opium tablets, another poking fun at being dope sick and a brief obituary for a moderator who died 31 May from an overdose probably involving fentanyl. To date, the subreddit has amassed more than 37,000 subscribers representing the entire addiction spectrum – habitual users, addicts desperate to get clean, and everything in between.
“I remember seeing comments on other warnings we’ve posted that people in those areas do see the mentioned stamps, and then avoid them, or they comment that they have had friends overdose on the same stamp, confirming that whatever is in the stamp/dope is extremely potent and dangerous,” said spinderella69, who cherishes the pseudo-anonymity woven into Reddit’s ethos and declined to share her identity.
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